Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:49:58 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com>, Mit Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <9560000.1002059397@vpn35.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <86g091pwzv.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net> References: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJGEBHCHAA.mitayai@dreaming.org> <86g091pwzv.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net>
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On Tuesday, October 02, 2001 16:12:20 -0500, James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> wrote: +----- | "Mit Rowe" <mitayai@dreaming.org> writes: | > I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it. | | Yet for me at home, FreeBSD _is_ my main desktop. I use WinXX for | gaming only. +--->8 I use FreeBSD as my main desktop... but it's far from perfect. "Windows' stability is the best argument for Unix. Unix's desktops are the best argument for Windows." I keep hoping Microsoft will roll a version of Windows that (a) doesn't have a UI that affects me like chalk squeaking on a blackboard and (b) doesn't fall over on me constantly. The former is merely annoying, but even with Win2k I can expect IE or the desktop to crash on me (and in the latter case auto-restart) several times a day. (Note that (a) this happens to me even on a stock install, (b) it *doesn't* happen to most people, and (c) it doesn't happen if I give it limited use, such as a vmware session in which I only run IE; I assume my normal usage patterns just push it beyond its limits.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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